Chapter Thirty-Seven

Rule Break...

Alexis let out a slow breathe as she locker the next morning. As she pulled her gear on, she replayed the events from the day before in her mind. 'No one insults my team like that,' she thought. She went to reach for her sword and stopped when she noticed a hand take it out of her locker. She looked to her right and saw Matthew standing there holding two swords. "Thought you might want something lighter for this fight," Matthew said holding the one out, "So I redid the Arc Buster and switched something out you haven't trained with yet for something new."

"And what did you switch out?" she asked. He held his old sword up and smiled as it converted into a scythe. "It's a Rose thing, don't ask," he said with a smile. "Maybe you should've left it in," she said taking the new sword. She tested the weight and blinked. "This is lighter," she said as it converted into a compound longbow, "Now this feels familiar." "I took a page from the Dragon Fang and put the dust infuser in it," he said as the scythe switched back to a sword, "Now, let's go show my idiot cousin what your new Arc Repulsor can do."

"Then let's rock," she said switch her new weapon back to its sword form. The two walked out into the practice area to find a small crowd had gathered. "Summer doesn't have her second round match until later this afternoon. So her and the rest of team SWRD is here with our parents," he said before walking to the stands. She stepped onto the floor and stopped when she noticed three other people standing next to her opponent. "I said this match was one on one," she said. "Oh you did and it still is," the one said holding a battle axe, "One team against one of you."

"What's wrong little girl? Do you need your pet cat to help you?" the one sneered at her. She drew her sword and smiled before tossing it high into the air. "Nope," she said catching her weapon, "Just a body bag for each of you." "Before we start," Goodwitch said stepping to the middle of the practice floor, "Snowden, I need the rest of your team to leave the floor immediately." "Sorry, but that chick challenged all of us the instant she challenged one of us," one of the four said.

"If that's true, that would mean sense your team member offended a student of Beacon," Matthew said as the rest of team MACH and SWRD stood up and walked to the floor, "He offended all of Beacon." "And this is technically still one on one," Summer said pulling her scythe out, "One school against one team." "More like one family against one bunch of idiots," Ruby said as her and the others stood next to their children. "She is right about the family part," Qrow said standing next to his nieces. Winter couldn't help but smile as she walked over and stood next to her husband as she asked, "Team FRST, are you sure all of you want to participate in this match were the odds are massively stacked against you?"

"It will be me against the one that issued the challenge," Snowden said as he stepped forward, "No one else." "Then would everyone please return to their seats?" Goodwitch asked calmly. As each person went back to their seats; Matthew, Hailey, and Crystal moved so they were standing a few feet from the practice area. "Sorry, headmaster, but I don't trust that jerks buddies not to interfere," Hailey said as she undid the latches on her holsters. "If they get involved, feel free to make them regret that decision," Goodwitch said before turning her attention to the combatants.

"Keep it clean, no cheap shots, and you go until one of you is in the red," she said before stepping to outside of the practice area, "And begin." Alexis quickly braced herself as she saw a glyph glow beneath her opponent a millisecond before he lunged forward. 'He's quick,' she thought as she blocked his attacks, 'But Summer's quicker.' Remembering a trick her father had taught her, she turned into his lunge and used his momentum to throw him across the floor.

'Thanks dad,' she thought quickly converting her weapon into its alt mode. Never taking her eyes off her opponent, she fired a single arrow into the ground in front of him and smiled. "Nice counter," Snowden said as he rebounded to his feet. "Thanks," Alexis said smiling, "And just so you know, this match is over." "What are you-?" he started to say but stopped as he was blasted into the air. Not wasting a second Alexis shot forward rammed her shoulder into her opponent. He hit the ground hard a rolled a few times before stopping just at the edge of the area.

He looked up and gasped as he saw her blade inches away from his face. "Give me a reason not to cut your head off," she said as her sword slowly moved down to the fly of his pants, "And I don't mean the one on your shoulders." "Because of the way the petting zoo was set up; two of the animals looked like they were sitting at a table eating. That was what the livestock comment was about," Snowden said looking at Alexis, "If you don't believe me, I took a picture of it and its still on my scroll. No one has ever beaten in a match like this before. You have pretty eyes and I would like to take you out to dinner tonight if it's ok with you, your team, and parents."

"Surrender and it's a date," Alexis said smiling. "I surrender," Snowden said tapping the floor three times. "And that's the duel," Goodwitch said. Alexis put her sword away and helped him up before saying, "I'm Alexis, by the way, and you'll be my team's new punching bag if I find out you made a racist comment about Faunus ever." "The guy that looks like a weasel on my team is the racist one, and I'm Snowden," he said smiling.

"She wins the duel by agreeing to go on a date with a guy," Crystal said before looking at the rest of her team, "Did I miss something here?"